Gurkhas hold religious week early ahead of Afghanistan deployment 22.09.11

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Gurkhas from C Company, 1 YORKS have held their annual religious week early so they can celebrate with their families before they deploy to Afghanistan.

The Nepalese festival of Dashian will happen while they are out in theatre.



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